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Monday, July 25, 2016

Mike Pence Has Led a Crusade Against Abortion Access and LGBT Rights

In short he is hardly afraid to stick his neck out on issues that matter. There were ample politic ways to dance on all these issues. He does not uses them This is good to see.

If he ends up gathering the responsibility likely to fall his way he could well be a most influential VP. It is an issue of trust. This is a man that many of the difficult files can be handed to easily. They will not necessarily be resolved on the basis of what is politically expedient.

Donald Trump has reportedly selected Indiana Gov. Mike Pence as his running mate, according to the Indianapolis Star and other outlets.It's a move that will surely appeal to the religious right, a constituency Trump has courted by meeting with evangelical leaders
and promising to appoint anti-abortion Supreme Court justices. In
contrast to the thrice-married, formerly pro-choice, ideologically
flexible Trump, Pence is a lifelong conservative who could assuage
evangelical voters skeptical of Trump's election-year conversion to
social conservative values.A father of three, Pence worked as an attorney in private practice
and had two unsuccessful bids for the House of Representatives before
winning the seat in 2000 and serving for 12 years. He was elected
governor in 2012. He also has media experience: In the 1990s, he hosted The Mike Pence Show, a talk radio show, and described himself as "Rush Limbaugh on decaf."

In Congress, Pence was a champion of conservative and religious
causes. He voted against measures aimed at preventing LGBT
discrimination and helping families in poverty, and he supported federal
legislation prohibiting same-sex marriage. As governor of Indiana,
Pence has brought this Religious Right-friendly agenda to the state and
enacted a number of stringent socially conservative measures.

Here's a summary of his conservative record:

He is not a fan of LGBT rights: In 2003, Pence, then representing the sixth congressional district of Indiana, co-sponsored an amendment that would have prohibited same-sex marriage. Four years later, he voted against the Employee Non-Discrimination Act, which aimed to prevent job discrimination based on sexual orientation.While in Congress, he opposed a bill aimed at more effectively prosecuting hate crimes based on sexual orientation and voted against the repeal of the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy.

He has made life harder for low-income families: Between 2006 and 2009, Pence voted against raising the minimum wage, expanding health coverage for low-income kids, and providing additional funding for Section 8 vouchers, which help low-income families pay rent.

He refused to comply with Obama administration rules aimed at reducing prison rape:
In 2014, Gov. Pence wrote to the Department of Justice to argue that
the new rules "work only to bind the states, and hinder the evolution of
even better and safer practices." He said Indiana would not follow
them.

He has supported deporting undocumented children and sick people and favors building a fence on the border (sound familiar?): In 2009, Rep. Pence co-sponsored a bill
that would have eliminated automatic citizenship for children born on
US soil to undocumented parents. A few years earlier, he voted in favor
of bills that would have allowed for the detention of undocumented
immigrants seeking hospital treatment. He also voted yes on a
bill—foreshadowing Trump's current platform—to build a fence on the
Mexico border.

He has decimated access to abortion: In March 2016, Gov. Pence signed a measure
prohibiting women from obtaining an abortion because of the race,
gender, or disability of the fetus, making Indiana only the second state
in the nation to do this. The law also held doctors legally liable for
wrongful death if it was found they had performed an abortion motivated
by one or more of the prohibited reasons. These sorts of bans are
opposed by much of the medical community, out of fear that women will
censor themselves when it comes to making difficult decisions with the
help of their doctors. Following the Supreme Court's decision in a
landmark abortion case in June, a federal judge blocked this Indiana law from going into effect.

He slashed Planned Parenthood funding, spurring clinic closures and an HIV outbreak:
In 2011, Pence pushed an amendment through the House to defund Planned
Parenthood. This amendment helped kick-start a wave of state actions
aimed at removing government support from the women's health provider.
Indiana was successful in its efforts, but a federal judge blocked the
law from going into effect. When Pence became governor in 2013, Indiana
continued to slash resources for the women's health provider. By 2014,
state funding for Planned Parenthood had been cut nearly in half from
2005 levels. The organization was forced to close five of its smaller
clinics, none of which had ever provided abortions, but they did provide
STD testing. Soon, Scott County, Indiana, home to one of the closed
clinics, became the hub of an enormous HIV outbreak.

He gave protection to businesses in Indiana that discriminate against gay people: In March 2015, Pence signed a bill
into law permitting business owners to refuse service to gay and
lesbian customers due to their religious beliefs. The bill also allowed
religious beliefs to be used as a rationale for other forms of
discrimination. As my colleague Molly Redden described it: "An employer
who refused to hire Jewish employees could cite his religious beliefs as
a defense against discrimination lawsuits. So could a landlord who
refused to rent to Muslims, or a business that refused to serve
atheists." In response to this bill's passage, athletes, celebrities, corporate leaders, andothers criticized the state publicly, and some even pulled out ofplanned
business projects there. The band Wilco canceled an Indianapolis show,
referring to "thinly disguised legal discrimination," and Apple's chief
executive, Tim Cook, wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post slamming the law.

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